Grammar, Syntax and Discourse Flashcards
1
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Declarative Sentence
A
a statement
2
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Interrogative Sentence
A
a question
3
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Imperative Sentence
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A command
4
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Exclamatory sentence
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an exclamation of feeling
5
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Complex Sentence
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a sentence constructed out of independent and subordinate clauses
6
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Compound sentence
A
two independent clauses joined by a conjunction
7
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Suffix
A
the closing syllable of a word
8
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Prefix
A
the opening syllable of a word
9
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Single Sentence
A
a single independent clause
10
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Minor
A
A grammatically incorrect sentence
11
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Morpheme
A
the individual elements of a word
12
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Syntactic Parallelism
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repetition of the same syntax (rhetoric device)
13
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Discourse
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a unit of language longer than a single sentence
14
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Narrative Voice
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the perspective of the text
15
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Genre
A
the type of text
